International roaming will always be expensive, be it for calls or data.
1- do you really need it ? I'd expect Wifi to be available most anywhere you are (though not while you're actually on the move), so VOIP, maybe with both a Canadian and a US provider, should be OK for you most of the time.
2- for when you DO need voice or data on the move or out of Wifi coverage, it's you choice between a single number w/ expensive international roaming, or 2 numbers, swapping SIMs.
I don't know what your situation is, but lotsa students have managed to survive without mobile phones, or without $100 monthly bills. Might require a little planning and temperance.
- "Pigeons can discriminate "good" and "bad" paintings by children": does that mean there is such a thing as universal good taste ? Discernible by animals ? Even if not good or bad, do pigeons actually have artistic tastes ? if so, how is it formed ? sounds a somewhat worthwhile study to me... May just be a fluke, though.
- "Swearing as a response to pain": I actually read a summary of that one... swearing makes pain more bearable, funnily enough. I'm holding out for the complementary study: "does taunting make it hurt more ?"
- "Intermittent access to beer promotes binge-like drinking in adolescent but not adult Wistar rats": again, kinda interesting, might be insightful (- suggested mod for my post) for humans too. would alcohol consumption and/or alcohol-binge related problems actually decrease if alcohol was more readily available ? I'm kinda puzzled by the youth alcohol situation in France vs the UK vs the US. It'd be kinda interesting to know which is the best objectively, before ideological pollution. Starting with animals sounds logical.
Prison is supposed to achieve 3-4 things: 1- remove criminals from the general population and put them where they can do no harm 2- punish them 3- make an example to deter other would-be criminals 4- educate them into becoming productive members of society.
I agree that some of these goals have been left by the wayside a long time ago, especially the education part - it seems that prison educates petty criminals into becoming violent ones these days-, but still, the punitive part is not the only one, not even, to me, the main one.
I'd rather have a choice: not carry a keyboard when I don't need one for maximum portability, and take along a small, or medium, or large, bluetooth keyboard, when I think I will.
unless nobody gets paid for providing that, and nobody gets charged to make up for the free stuff, the word you're looking for is not "free", it's subsidized. Not that I'm against it, I really have no opinion right now, but I'm tired of people thinking stuff is free because others pay for it.
to be REALLY fair, windows 7's market is bigger than Windows 1.0's was.1985 = 30 million PCs, 2007 = 1 billion PCs . Since costs are fairly fixed (dev accounts for a lot, DVD+packaging for almost nothing), we could expect the price to be $200 x 30 / 1,000 = $6, assuming stable dev costs, which they obviously weren't quite... but that raw calculation is no dumber than yours... actually may be a bit smarter .
almost all WinMob and Android phones can do wifi -> 3g routing, so your iPad will be able to tether without even realizing it's tethering. Bluetooth -> 3G and Bluetooth -> Wifi would prolly not work, though, if the iPad's BT stack is anything like the iPhone's.
I'd be leery of buying from a company with such a customer unfriendly attitude though. Their goal is clearly to sell more 3G upgrades, on which they take 90% margin.
I've got studies that say IGPs actually rose vs GPUs in 2009, I'm interested in your sources.
Indeed, the difference is between IGPs playing some videos, which they always did, and IGPs playing all videos, which they now do. Glad you got that.
Mmm, are you saying that IGPs, especially Intel's much dominant ones, have done hardware-assisted video decode for all formats for a long time ? That's just not true.
And finally, my point exactly: if devs can't do multi-core even now, when do you think they will do physx or GPGPU, which is even more marginal ? The reason is rather immaterial, the result is clear. In the end, difficulty = money anyway, choose which one you prefer.
There are about 25 million PCs sold per month. I guess ATI is happy to have sold 8% of that monthly amount over the several months their 5xxx have been available, that's 3-4% of PC sales. Congrats to them, but still, fairly marginal.
Discrete cards have always been better than IGPs. I don't really get your point. Only recently (definitely way after the pentium 1) have IGPs become good enough to display all video files, or handle Aero.
PhysX is about making physics computations, not directly putting pixels on screen, so it's a kind of specialized GPGPU.
GPU makers are in a bind: - IGP are now enough for 90% of users: office work (even w/ Aero), video, light gaming, dual-screen... all work fine with IGPs - the remaining 10% (gamers, graphic artists) are dwindling for lack or outstanding games: game publishers are turned off by rampant piracy, mainly online games bring in big money nowadays - GPGPU is useless except in scientific computing: we already have more x86 cores than the devs know how to use, let alone use a different computing paradigm - devs have to target the lowest common denominator, which means no GPGPU for games
I'm actually think of moving my home PC to one of the upcoming ARM-based smarttops. They look good enough for torrenting + video watching + web browsing, consume 10 watts instead of 150...
With the importance of the web, I don't really understand why the W3C does not have a disambiguation committee that chooses and confirms which of the diverging implementations should be used. Sounds like a very wise investment of 2-3 people's wages.
The issue is not so much the amount of rain that falls. It's the number of days with rain or with lotsa clouds. I've lived in the Provence, which is reputedly dry, and in Brittany (the small one, west of France). Both get about as much rain, but
- the Provence gets it over a few days, pretty much always at the same time (spring, autumn, and a few thunderstrom is summer), with a clear build-up of clouds where you can see it's gonna rain tomorrow, gets hammered by a great big rain, and then goes for weeks without rain.
- Brittany gets its rain any day, any season. Any day can start off sunny with no clouds, and rain by midday. It often will be a pitiful drizzle, that counts for little water, except is f***ing wet and takes the fun out of doing anything outdoors.
Yearly statistics (http://www.worldweather.org/010/c00032.htm) Number of rain days in London: 139, total rain = 600 mm, number of pure sunny days = N/A Number of rain days in Marseilles: 55, total rain = 554mm, number of pure sunny days = N/A
So yeah, Marseilles gets as much rain as London. No, it is not, and does not feel, any way near as rainy.
The issue is my ASS: Availability, Safety, Security.
I want my apps and data to be accessible at all times. Even when I'm off-line, or they are, or somethings dies in-between.
I want my data to be safe, which means off-site, off-line backups.
I want my data to be secure, which means no hacking. For every high-visibility CEO that gets caught, how many 3rd-world subcontractors' trainees don't ?
Since it seems to have escaped your attention, I'd like to point out the fact that unqualified surgeons can (will ?) kill people; unqualified admins won't.
You get more for you money if the market is free, which means: - freedom to hire who you want - freedom to fire who you want - ability to determine which is which
this does, indeed, rise the prices of the good ones. it also lowers the prices of the bad ones.The real issue is not paying more, it's hiring, firing, and evaluating.
I don't know if I'm a libertarian, but: universities don't matter that much. It's primary education that is really key. And that is free most everywhere.
very frankly, as long as its in the same ballpark, speed don't matter.
I find Tom's article ridiculous, for at least 2 reasons:
1- they focus on performance, and disregard features completely. That's their choice, but it's an idiotic one
2- they compare perfs in wildly different configs: a fully usable Opera (with its integrated mouse gestures, adblock, noscript, synch...) vs a unusable barebones Firebox with 0 addons.
we should generalize: - all voters responsible for the crimes of who they voted for (who's electing all those assholes, after all ?) - all employees, for their employers' (you should be aware of what's going on) - all parents, for their children's (you raised them, you mop up for them)
General happiness and world peace will ensue.
I haven't seen a pop up in years.
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clues for the clueless
1- don't write wall of texts detailing how out of it you are 2- use a HOSTS file, solves 90% of problems. Good one here: http://www.fanboy.co.nz/adblock/opera/ 3- use any browser that can block popups/flash/jscript. I personally use Opera.
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3 times ? So your platforms are Win 32, Win 64, and Blackberry ? what about the other ones ?
wanna bet the law gets changed ?
International roaming will always be expensive, be it for calls or data.
1- do you really need it ? I'd expect Wifi to be available most anywhere you are (though not while you're actually on the move), so VOIP, maybe with both a Canadian and a US provider, should be OK for you most of the time.
2- for when you DO need voice or data on the move or out of Wifi coverage, it's you choice between a single number w/ expensive international roaming, or 2 numbers, swapping SIMs.
I don't know what your situation is, but lotsa students have managed to survive without mobile phones, or without $100 monthly bills. Might require a little planning and temperance.
- "Pigeons can discriminate "good" and "bad" paintings by children": does that mean there is such a thing as universal good taste ? Discernible by animals ? Even if not good or bad, do pigeons actually have artistic tastes ? if so, how is it formed ? sounds a somewhat worthwhile study to me... May just be a fluke, though.
- "Swearing as a response to pain": I actually read a summary of that one... swearing makes pain more bearable, funnily enough. I'm holding out for the complementary study: "does taunting make it hurt more ?"
- "Intermittent access to beer promotes binge-like drinking in adolescent but not adult Wistar rats": again, kinda interesting, might be insightful (- suggested mod for my post) for humans too. would alcohol consumption and/or alcohol-binge related problems actually decrease if alcohol was more readily available ? I'm kinda puzzled by the youth alcohol situation in France vs the UK vs the US. It'd be kinda interesting to know which is the best objectively, before ideological pollution. Starting with animals sounds logical.
and so on.
Prison is supposed to achieve 3-4 things:
1- remove criminals from the general population and put them where they can do no harm
2- punish them
3- make an example to deter other would-be criminals
4- educate them into becoming productive members of society.
I agree that some of these goals have been left by the wayside a long time ago, especially the education part - it seems that prison educates petty criminals into becoming violent ones these days-, but still, the punitive part is not the only one, not even, to me, the main one.
this has to be the worst car analogy ever.
I'd rather have a choice: not carry a keyboard when I don't need one for maximum portability, and take along a small, or medium, or large, bluetooth keyboard, when I think I will.
unless nobody gets paid for providing that, and nobody gets charged to make up for the free stuff, the word you're looking for is not "free", it's subsidized. Not that I'm against it, I really have no opinion right now, but I'm tired of people thinking stuff is free because others pay for it.
to be REALLY fair, windows 7's market is bigger than Windows 1.0's was.1985 = 30 million PCs, 2007 = 1 billion PCs . Since costs are fairly fixed (dev accounts for a lot, DVD+packaging for almost nothing), we could expect the price to be $200 x 30 / 1,000 = $6, assuming stable dev costs, which they obviously weren't quite... but that raw calculation is no dumber than yours... actually may be a bit smarter .
almost all WinMob and Android phones can do wifi -> 3g routing, so your iPad will be able to tether without even realizing it's tethering. Bluetooth -> 3G and Bluetooth -> Wifi would prolly not work, though, if the iPad's BT stack is anything like the iPhone's.
I'd be leery of buying from a company with such a customer unfriendly attitude though. Their goal is clearly to sell more 3G upgrades, on which they take 90% margin.
I've got studies that say IGPs actually rose vs GPUs in 2009, I'm interested in your sources.
Indeed, the difference is between IGPs playing some videos, which they always did, and IGPs playing all videos, which they now do. Glad you got that.
Mmm, are you saying that IGPs, especially Intel's much dominant ones, have done hardware-assisted video decode for all formats for a long time ? That's just not true.
And finally, my point exactly: if devs can't do multi-core even now, when do you think they will do physx or GPGPU, which is even more marginal ? The reason is rather immaterial, the result is clear. In the end, difficulty = money anyway, choose which one you prefer.
There are about 25 million PCs sold per month. I guess ATI is happy to have sold 8% of that monthly amount over the several months their 5xxx have been available, that's 3-4% of PC sales. Congrats to them, but still, fairly marginal.
Discrete cards have always been better than IGPs. I don't really get your point. Only recently (definitely way after the pentium 1) have IGPs become good enough to display all video files, or handle Aero.
PhysX is about making physics computations, not directly putting pixels on screen, so it's a kind of specialized GPGPU.
GPU makers are in a bind:
- IGP are now enough for 90% of users: office work (even w/ Aero), video, light gaming, dual-screen... all work fine with IGPs
- the remaining 10% (gamers, graphic artists) are dwindling for lack or outstanding games: game publishers are turned off by rampant piracy, mainly online games bring in big money nowadays
- GPGPU is useless except in scientific computing: we already have more x86 cores than the devs know how to use, let alone use a different computing paradigm
- devs have to target the lowest common denominator, which means no GPGPU for games
I'm actually think of moving my home PC to one of the upcoming ARM-based smarttops. They look good enough for torrenting + video watching + web browsing, consume 10 watts instead of 150...
With the importance of the web, I don't really understand why the W3C does not have a disambiguation committee that chooses and confirms which of the diverging implementations should be used. Sounds like a very wise investment of 2-3 people's wages.
The issue is not so much the amount of rain that falls. It's the number of days with rain or with lotsa clouds. I've lived in the Provence, which is reputedly dry, and in Brittany (the small one, west of France). Both get about as much rain, but
- the Provence gets it over a few days, pretty much always at the same time (spring, autumn, and a few thunderstrom is summer), with a clear build-up of clouds where you can see it's gonna rain tomorrow, gets hammered by a great big rain, and then goes for weeks without rain.
- Brittany gets its rain any day, any season. Any day can start off sunny with no clouds, and rain by midday. It often will be a pitiful drizzle, that counts for little water, except is f***ing wet and takes the fun out of doing anything outdoors.
Yearly statistics (http://www.worldweather.org/010/c00032.htm)
Number of rain days in London: 139, total rain = 600 mm, number of pure sunny days = N/A
Number of rain days in Marseilles: 55, total rain = 554mm, number of pure sunny days = N/A
So yeah, Marseilles gets as much rain as London. No, it is not, and does not feel, any way near as rainy.
The issue is my ASS: Availability, Safety, Security.
I want my apps and data to be accessible at all times. Even when I'm off-line, or they are, or somethings dies in-between.
I want my data to be safe, which means off-site, off-line backups.
I want my data to be secure, which means no hacking. For every high-visibility CEO that gets caught, how many 3rd-world subcontractors' trainees don't ?
Mmmm, do you have any clue about the education sector regulations, teachers' unions, tenure, performance evaluations (or lack thereof)...
Since it seems to have escaped your attention, I'd like to point out the fact that unqualified surgeons can (will ?) kill people; unqualified admins won't.
Which seems to be a somewhat relevant matter.
Nope.
You get more for you money if the market is free, which means:
- freedom to hire who you want
- freedom to fire who you want
- ability to determine which is which
this does, indeed, rise the prices of the good ones. it also lowers the prices of the bad ones.The real issue is not paying more, it's hiring, firing, and evaluating.
your post begs the question: what does one have to give up to learn spelling ?
I don't know if I'm a libertarian, but: universities don't matter that much. It's primary education that is really key. And that is free most everywhere.
very frankly, as long as its in the same ballpark, speed don't matter.
I find Tom's article ridiculous, for at least 2 reasons:
1- they focus on performance, and disregard features completely. That's their choice, but it's an idiotic one
2- they compare perfs in wildly different configs: a fully usable Opera (with its integrated mouse gestures, adblock, noscript, synch...) vs a unusable barebones Firebox with 0 addons.
we should generalize:
- all voters responsible for the crimes of who they voted for (who's electing all those assholes, after all ?)
- all employees, for their employers' (you should be aware of what's going on)
- all parents, for their children's (you raised them, you mop up for them)
General happiness and world peace will ensue.
clues for the clueless
1- don't write wall of texts detailing how out of it you are
2- use a HOSTS file, solves 90% of problems. Good one here: http://www.fanboy.co.nz/adblock/opera/
3- use any browser that can block popups/flash/jscript. I personally use Opera.
frightens me a bit.